Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
The Right Kind of Crazy
A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats...
That's Not How We Do It Here!
A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
** What’s the worst thing you can hear when you have a good idea at work?
“That’s not how we do it here!”**
In their iconic bestseller Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the process of leading people through major changes....
The Future of Work
Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Throughout the history of business employees had to adapt to managers and managers had to adapt to organizations. In the future this is reversed with managers and organizations adapting to employees. This means that in order to succeed and thrive organizations must rethink and challenge everything...
by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, Dave Ulrich
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, includes three important books by experts in the human resources field-The HR Scorecard, The HR Value Proposition, and Human Resource Champions. Learn how individuals in human resources can partner with line managers to make organizations...
by Starhawk
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonprofit dedicated to social change millions of such voluntary groups exist around the world. These collaborative organizations have the unique potential...
Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks
Theory, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of...
Evolutionary Leadership
Dynamic Ways to Make Your Corporate Culture Fast a
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
IS YOUR CORPORATE CULTURE SUFFOCATING YOU?
Written by one of the world's leading management consultants, Evolutionary Leadership offers a vibrant style of leadership that will enlighten executives and inspire them to rethink their companies in an ever-changing economy. With business practices...
People Before Things
Change Isn't an End-User Problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Why do some organizations succeed at delivering technology change and others don't? Quite simply, their leaders put people before things. Explore the head-slapping, intuitive conditions needed to enable and activate change. The motivation behind this book? Something is not working! Gallup reports...
The Coaching Secret
How to be an exceptional coach
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Coaching as a field has mushroomed in recent years. Thousands of new coaches enter the field after only completing short and superficial training programmes. The problem with this is that coaching is not i) something you can simply learn in a short programme ii) a superficial practice.
The...
Why you Need to Employ More People with Disabilities
the Business Case Compels You to Act Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This short but fact-filled book will convince you that your business needs to employ more People with Disabilities, either as employees or suppliers. The rationale is simple: the business case works. One dollar spent here returns five to thirty-five, so money is not the...
Execution IS the Strategy
How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Turn Strategy into Performance! In today’s world of rapid, disruptive change, strategy can’t be separate from execution—it has to emerge from execution. You have to continually adjust your strategy to fit new realities. But if your organization isn’t set up to be fast on its feet, you could...
by Mark R. McNeilly
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1996
To hand down the wisdom he had gained from years of battles more than two millennia ago the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military strategy The Art of War. Because business like warfare is dynamic fast-paced and requires an effective and efficient use of scarce resources modern...
Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace
Seven Steps to Renew Confidence, Commitment, and Energy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Are you feeling less engaged, less committed and more skeptical at work? Do you find yourself isolated? Or are you caught in the middle of co-workers’ interpersonal conflicts? If so, you may be experiencing the symptoms of broken trust in workplace relationships. Small but hurtful situations accumulate...
by Philip Michael
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A quick set of tips to use as a guideline for securing a financially sound future.